Cinema should depict stories that touch you, make you relate to them. If Hollywood is centered on comics, New York, special agents, fast cars, we too have our Milka Singh, Wasseypur, RAW, Para Commandoes. Bollywood would be better off showing movies which depict our country instead of going overseas to shoot for every film. This was a strong reason why Bahubali, Dangal were the films that they were. Uri is a film that makes you feel proud of being born an Indian.

I’m a fauji-kid, someone who has spent all of his childhood around the men, women who serve the nation. I know just how badass they are. I had entered the hall hoping they don’t Bollywoodise the forces, making the whole movie a one-man army affair. On the contrary, the film didn’t even make Mohit Raina take his shirt off.

Everything was like clockwork - most actions seemed completely logical, realistic, which can maybe pave way for action in Bollywood. It’s not the kind of movie where guns blaze endlessly for no reason. Things are strategic.

Emotion runs high throughout the film, with the relationship between Vicky’s character and his mother touching a chord for me. The little girl crying out the regiment’s war cry got me teary.

Vicky Kaushal is the shoulder, leaning on which the film hit the right notes. He motivates you, invokes love, he masks his emotions under the strong persona that he must show to his men, cries when alone. You feel everything he feels.

There are scenes where the CGI work makes the guns look like they shoot lasers, but those are forgotten when you hear the soundtrack, especially the songs in the climax, credits.

Spectacularly, this was the first movie that I’ve seen which ended to an applause, which had me pleasantly surprised. I hope Vicky gets to know the effect that this movie has on the Delhi audience. Kirti Kulhari was another character who shone out.

How’s the Josh?

Definitely high sir!